... in Europe, sewers, baths and aqueducts collapsed, people dug cesspools right next to wells and water became polluted. After Rome fell, no single body stepped forward to take it's place, countries split into tribes. Feudal lords were more interested in fighting and wars with other tribes than with advancing the health of their peasantry. The diet and harvests of Europe stayed fairly steady with the exception of when various epidemics like the plague killed so many that there weren't enough people to farm the land. Child birth was always a problem and a very large cause of fatalities for women, but during the Middle ages the lack of public and personal hygiene meant that the risk of infection was even higher than usual. The other thing that affected the health of people in the Middle ages was the regression of technology after the fall of the Roman empire, much of ...

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